News The Festina Group, announced the retirement by the end of May of his Vice-president and CEO Jean-Claude Schwarz. His successor will be Gérald Roden, who has a large experience in the industrial and marketing fields. He is also CEO ad interim of Perrelet.
After a successful start out in various watch-making companies in France as Sales Manager, Gérald Roden pursued his career as General Manager of «Asia Commercial» in Hong Kong and, thus, developed a solid expertise of Asian markets, especially China. He pursued his career with Daniel Roth as Managing Director. Further to the company’s buy-out by the Bulgari Group in 2000, Gérald Roden was promoted to the position of President and CEO of Daniel Roth and Gérald Genta brands. Recently he contributed to the restructuring of De Grisogono as CEO.
May 13, 2013
